Aquidneck Indian CouncilA Public Foundation Preserving the PastJune, 2004

-PREFACE-

This volume is an expanded and updated version of an unpublished manuscript
produced for a project entitled, Native Journies, Intersections, and
Jonnycakes, a congressionally earmarked grant funded by the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records
Administration (2001-2002). The first draft of the Indian Bibliography
was compiled in May, 2002 by myself as Co-Principal Investigator at Rhode
Island Indian Council, Dr. Albert T. Klyberg (Co-Principal Investigator,
Heritage Harbor Museum), and Kalyana S. Champlain (Researcher, Rhode Island
Indian Council).

An attempt has been made to record all relevant published documents
for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and major documents
for Massachusetts and Connecticut that fall under the scholarly rubrics
of history, archaeology and anthropology (including linguistics and other
subcategories related to "ethnography"). There is a large body of highly
specialized research on Native American linguistics relating to Indians
in and around Rhode Island which we cannot capture in this volume. The
reader is referred to Ives Goddard, ed., Handbook of North American Indians,
Vol. 17 (Languages), Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution.

Three electronic Internet sources will prove invaluable to researchers.
Locally, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation maintains a website database
that encompasses 15 bibliographic categories devoted to regional Native
Americans; see this
site. At the University of Rhode Island's Special Collections Library
the reader will find a bibliographic database for Rhode Island History,
and other areas; see www.uri.edu/library/special_collections.
The Federal Smithsonian Institution website is another invaluable research
resource for the United States; see http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guides.htm.

-ACKNOWLEGMENTS-

The bibliography was made possible with the support of many people,
organizations and institutions. The Native Journies project was
strongly supported by Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell (CO), Jack Reed
(RI) and Lincoln D. Chaffee (RI) of the United States Senate. Dr. Albert
T. Klyberg, former Director of Museum Programs, Heritage Harbor Museum,
created the original source grant for the collaboration between Heritage
Harbor Museum and the Rhode Island Indian Council.

Darrell Waldron, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Indian Council,
provided a home and support for the researchers. Ray Petrarca, Council
Accountant, was very helpful in coordinating expenditures and logistics.
Many research and records facilities throughout the country contributed
to the listings. In Rhode Island we must mention the Rhode Island Office
of the Secretary of State, Division of State Archives and Public Records
Administration, The Rhode Island Historical Society Library, The Rhode
Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, The Black Heritage
Society, The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, University
of Rhode Island Special Collections Library, The Rhode Island Department
of Education, The Providence Journal, Narragansett Indian News, Providence
Public Library, and The Narragansett Indian Tribal Nation. In nearby Massachusetts
we were assisted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Public
Library, and Harvard University. We thank the Mashantucket Pequot Library
and Research Center, and Connecticut Historical Society in Connecticut.
Other academic libraries providing information include Princeton University,
University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. The United States Library
of Congress allowed electronic access to numerous American, Canadian and
European scholarly research libraries, and the Smithsonian Institution
contributed to our research efforts.

-ABBREVIATIONS-

For the reader's convenience, standard abbreviations used throughout
the book include:

n.d. ~ no date of publication

n.p. ~ no place of publication and/or publisher

n.s. ~ new series

o.s. ~ old series

s.l. (Latin), sine loco ~ without place of publication

s.n. (Latin), sine nominee ~ without name of publisher

ser. ~ serial

ed.~ editor or eds. ~ editors

vol. ~ volume; vols. ~ volumes

Pp. ~ pages

2ed. ~ second edition; 3ed. ~ third edition, etc.

_____ ~ same author(s) as above

http: ~ online Internet document

ms. ~ manuscript

trans. ~ translator

The present volume contains 1,602 entries. We expect this listing to grow
organically over the years.

This material my be used for personal use, and may be quoted in publication,
as long as these sources are cited: 1) Dr. Francis Joseph O'Brien, Jr.,
author, and; 2) Rhode Island USGenWeb (RIGenWeb) Project.